Incredible String Band : 5000 Spirits

CD [Cover Art for Incredible String Band / 5000 Spirits] Your Price: $13.58 (List Price: $15.99)
Rated 9 with 8 responses
Availability: In Stock
Sell date: 1/2008
Label: Warner Brothers UK
Mfg's Catalog#: 960913
CDC Part#: 871910
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 Notes & Reviews
 
Not Returnable, Not Cancellable.
 
 
Innovative, psychedelic, English folk music that remains musically satisfying, despite the sometimes cloying lyrics.
- James Jose, 02/18/2010, Australia

An album I've missed for 38 years! I am so happy to have this music back in my life.
- Jace Iversen, 03/23/2009, USA

Full title is: 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion


Inside, 5000 Spirits is full of whimsical delights. It was produced by Robin Williamson and Mike Heron once they had returned from travels. Robin himself had managed to pick up a variety of different instruments in Morocco and they all seem to get in there somewhere. Clive Palmer who had started the String Band with Robin had gone off to Afghanistan and did not rejoin the others. 5000 Spirits was quite unlike anything else that was around at the time. Anyone expecting something like Disraeli Gears or Odessey & Oracle would have been surprised by what the String Band was offering. The fusion of folk, blues, psychedelia and, certainly what we now call World Music, gave 5000 Spirits a unique sound that has guaranteed a place in music history. Warner. 2003.

 
 Tracks and Sound Clips   Click here for the Windows Media player
 
Chinese White - 3:34 Play the Windows Media clip
No Sleep Blues - 3:48 Play the Windows Media clip
Painting Box - 3:58 Play the Windows Media clip
Mad Hatter's Song - 5:35 Play the Windows Media clip
Little Cloud - 3:52 Play the Windows Media clip
Eyes of Fate - 3:56 Play the Windows Media clip
Blues for the Muse - 2:44 Play the Windows Media clip
Hedgehog's Song - 3:26 Play the Windows Media clip
First Girl I Loved - 4:51 Play the Windows Media clip
You Know What You Could Be - 2:44 Play the Windows Media clip
My Name Is Death - 2:42 Play the Windows Media clip
Gently Tender - 4:45 Play the Windows Media clip
Way Back in the 1960s - 3:08 Play the Windows Media clip
 
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